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Oscars

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zanahoria · 09/09/2020 10:42

In a historic move, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Tuesday laid out sweeping eligibility reforms to the best picture category intended to encourage diversity and equitable representation on screen and off, addressing gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity and disability

amp.theguardian.com/film/2020/sep/08/oscars-academy-awards-diversity-race-gender

The whole of Hollywood will declare themselves LGBTQ now!

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zanahoria · 09/09/2020 10:49

Men can become women and the quota is filled, even if they are not brave enough maybe just settle for being a pansexual genderqueer.

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Cocothefirst · 09/09/2020 10:47

It's all tiresome, performative bollocks.

They've never given a shit about the huge under-representation of women in film. In 2019, the percentage of women working on the top 500 films remained steady at 23% (taken from link below).

womenintvfilm.sdsu.edu/research/#:~:text=Women%20comprised%2020%25%20of%20all,up%20from%2016%25%20in%202018.&text=Women%20accounted%20for%2012%25%20of,2018%20and%208%25%20in%202017.

We'll see more white men performing all shades of LBGTQ++++ which will mean no real change whatsoever.
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